| ▲ | drewp 3 days ago |
| Can you recommend a tool for dicing up 2h digitizations of VHS tapes? I want to play the 2h video, seek around easily, mark 'chapters' and give them filenames, then do a no-transcode rough cut extraction of each chapter into its own video. |
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| ▲ | numpad0 a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| Sounds like a task "easily" done with one massive painful line of `gst-launch-1.0 filesrc ... ! ... ! splitmuxsink` |
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| ▲ | wonger_ 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I've been working on a video editor for this use case: https://github.com/wong-justin/vic |
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| ▲ | jazzyjackson 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Interesting approach, i like the aesthetic. When you say 'add audio' is a big task , does this mean the videos after cutting up don't have audio, or just that the preview doesn't have audio? the latter wouldn't be a problem for the use case of slicing up home videos. I have the same task as parent, might have to make a weekend project out of it. | | |
| ▲ | wonger_ 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Thanks :) The preview doesn't play audio. But the sliced output has audio. The UX should be a lot smoother once I get around to non-blocking inputs and the audio player. For now, futzing around with mpv or a fully-featured video editor might be the way to go. |
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| ▲ | j45 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Is it one continuous file at the moment? |
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| ▲ | drewp 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Yeah, I play a VHS tape and capture the whole thing. Maybe I should be using a scene detector to split files on camera cuts, which would be roughly correct for home movies (but not for TV shows). |
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| ▲ | pdyc 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| u can do it with this command, it will just copy audio and video ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -ss 00:00:00 -to 0:30:00 -c:v copy -c:a copy chapter1.mkv u can just copy paste it 10 times in your text editor, than adjust ss, to times using any video player that can play vhs file. |
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| ▲ | drewp 3 days ago | parent [-] | | That's where I am now. I'd like to optimize out the retyping and duplication of time strings. I want the player ui (I'm using mpv) to have a command that: 1. Remembers the last end time to use as this chapter's start time 2. Gets the current time to use as chapter-end. 3. Accepts the name (e.g. 'chapter1'). 4. Runs the ffmpeg copy command. Perhaps mpv+lua can already handle this. I see commands for setting a loop range and for calling a subprocess. Not sure how I'd input the chapter name. Maybe I'll have an LLM name the chapters for me :) | | |
| ▲ | pdyc 3 days ago | parent [-] | | u r on right track with llm, just tell it that you will give input file and set of start, end times and that it should generate the command for u. As a bonus ask it to give u the example as well so that it doesn't misunderstands! i think even chatgpt mini should be able to do it. | | |
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